JESS: Yeah, I like this place. RORY: Wow. A place in Stars Hollow you actually like. I’m stunned. JESS: It’s got some good memories. You see right over there? RORY: Yup. JESS: That’s where Luke pushed me in. RORY: Huh. JESS: Yeah. RORY: It’s nice. JESS: It is. RORY: So why’d you do it? JESS: Do what? RORY: Outbid Dean like that. JESS: I don’t know. I guess it started as a joke just to bug him, but then he just got so mad, you know? And he is so tall, and I just was looking at him and he’s standing there all tall and mad and I just... I don’t know. It was... it was really funny. RORY: It wasn’t funny.

JESS: Well, if it makes you feel any better, I didn’t intend to do it. Does that make you feel any better? RORY: I just don’t wanna be in a fight with Dean. JESS: I’m sorry about that. You wanna push me in the lake? It’s cathartic, I hear. RORY: Hm, maybe in a little. JESS: Whatever.

JESS: So why don’t we open this thing? RORY: Go ahead. [Jess opens the picnic basket]JESS: Wow. Not one thing in here that I would remotely consider eating. RORY: Well, I didn’t make it for you. I made it for Dean. JESS: And Dean would’ve eaten this? [holds up a container]RORY: Yes, he would have. [Jess tastes a forkful of the food and makes a face]JESS: Dean is an idiot. RORY: Dean never would’ve fallen for that. JESS: Ah, ha ha.

RORY: Ten. JESS: Ten? RORY: Yeah but I didn’t understand a word of it, so I had to reread it when I was fifteen. JESS: I’ve yet to make it through it. RORY: Really? Try it. The Fountainhead is classic. JESS: Yeah, but Ayn Rand is a political nut. RORY: Yeah, but nobody could write a forty page monologue the way that she could. JESS: Okay, tomorrow I will try again, and you will... RORY: Give the painful Ernest Hemingway another chance. Yes, I promise. JESS: You know, Ernest only has lovely things to say about you. RORY: Why are you only nice to me? JESS: Excuse me? RORY: An hour ago you were totally screwing with Dean and now you’re totally nice to me. JESS: You see, it’s the screwing with Dean - that’s an important step to getting here so that I can be nice to you.

RORY: So it was a plan. JESS: What? RORY: The whole bidding on my basket, it was a plan. JESS: Okay, I’m officially starving. RORY: And officially evasive. JESS: Come on, I’ll get you a pizza. RORY: Answer my question. JESS: Do you like pepperoni? RORY: Not going to, are you? JESS: We can just get it on half if you want.